#NoEstimates is an exploration of what estimates and how agile and scrum teams use them in their daily practices. This talk helps teams discover new ways to forecast delivery.
The #NoEstimates Movement - Ryan RipleyRyan Ripley
The #NoEstimates Movement explore the question of whether or not we need traditional estimates to make decisions about software development projects. By working in an agile way can we break down our work, inspect and adapt frequently, and deliver value to our customers. This presentation was give at Derby City Agile on June 15, 2018. http://derbycityagile.com/
Software Estimation in the Agile of Agile - Agile Indy North Side Meetup 2018Ryan Ripley
Estimation is difficult. It involved estimating the work, all of the things that stop us from doing our work, and the unforeseen. Instead, let's focus on the work at hand and reduce the complexity of software estimation.
Slides as presented at the 2019 Prairie DevCon Deliver Conference. http://www.prdcdeliver.com/
Leadership at Every Level: Practices for Aligned Autonomy
What does it mean to have leadership at every level of an organization? How do you create aligned autonomy in your team or organization? This talk connects the philosophy of intent-based leadership with practices that enable you to realize the benefits of aligned autonomy, regardless of where your name is in your org chart. By discovering virtual safety nets and vision balloons, you’ll learn how to pragmatically establish psychological safety and alignment of purpose, two of the core traits of high-performing teams.
About the event:
AWS Transformation Day is designed for enterprise organizations migrating to the cloud to become more responsive, agile and innovative, while staying secure and compliant. Join us for this one-day event and we’ll share our experiences of helping enterprise customers accelerate the pace of migration and adoption of strategic services.
Who should attend?
This event is recommended for IT and business leaders who are looking to create sustainable benefits and a competitive advantage by using the AWS Cloud. CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, CDOs, CFOs, IT leaders and IT professionals, enterprise developers, business decision makers, and finance executives.
The #NoEstimates Movement - Ryan RipleyRyan Ripley
The #NoEstimates Movement explore the question of whether or not we need traditional estimates to make decisions about software development projects. By working in an agile way can we break down our work, inspect and adapt frequently, and deliver value to our customers. This presentation was give at Derby City Agile on June 15, 2018. http://derbycityagile.com/
Software Estimation in the Agile of Agile - Agile Indy North Side Meetup 2018Ryan Ripley
Estimation is difficult. It involved estimating the work, all of the things that stop us from doing our work, and the unforeseen. Instead, let's focus on the work at hand and reduce the complexity of software estimation.
Slides as presented at the 2019 Prairie DevCon Deliver Conference. http://www.prdcdeliver.com/
Leadership at Every Level: Practices for Aligned Autonomy
What does it mean to have leadership at every level of an organization? How do you create aligned autonomy in your team or organization? This talk connects the philosophy of intent-based leadership with practices that enable you to realize the benefits of aligned autonomy, regardless of where your name is in your org chart. By discovering virtual safety nets and vision balloons, you’ll learn how to pragmatically establish psychological safety and alignment of purpose, two of the core traits of high-performing teams.
About the event:
AWS Transformation Day is designed for enterprise organizations migrating to the cloud to become more responsive, agile and innovative, while staying secure and compliant. Join us for this one-day event and we’ll share our experiences of helping enterprise customers accelerate the pace of migration and adoption of strategic services.
Who should attend?
This event is recommended for IT and business leaders who are looking to create sustainable benefits and a competitive advantage by using the AWS Cloud. CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, CDOs, CFOs, IT leaders and IT professionals, enterprise developers, business decision makers, and finance executives.
Failure is inevitable but it isn't permanentTom Stiehm
Agile Transformation is harder than it needs to be because we often find ways to consciously or subconsciously sabotage our efforts if we can recognize this behavior it is possible to intervene and make a change for the positive.
Does this scenario sound familiar? You have taken on a project that can solve a core challenge that can provide measurable value to your business. It's an exciting opportunity to learn and grow, but that excitement quickly turns to anxiety as you are confronted with a list of unknowns and questions. Answering these questions, if they ever get solved completely, can be done in a myriad of ways. As new projects and challenges come along, the same questions and anxieties surface. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Analysis paralysis leads to projects getting forced on to legacy architectures, deliver results that are "good enough", or stop projects before they get started. This session will illustrate how adopting an agile mindset to cloud adoption can end this cycle and meet your business needs.
How To Activate Employee Engagement Through Digital TransformationDynamic Signal
“Digital” continues to disrupt and create new opportunities for businesses and brands across multiple areas of their organizations. From real-time response to hyper-connected customers and employees, companies often struggle to fulfill the increasing demand for fast, personalized responses to their requests and concerns.
Highly trusted employees can be an organization’s greatest asset during this transformative time. But today’s employees have very different expectations and needs as well.
Join David Armano, Global Strategy Director of Edelman, and Cydney Roach, U.S. Practice Lead for Edelman’s Employee Engagement Practice, for an exclusive webinar with Dynamic Signal. The panel will discuss:
- What got us here and how an organization’s digital transformation journey impacts its future
- How to engage employees using new technology and techniques
- How trust factors into brand reputation and employee advocacy
Business Model Canvas mash-up with the 4Qs Framework. Mash-up by Allen Pattis...run_frictionless
Allen Pattiselanno shares his own special blend of SWOT Analysis, Business Model Canvas, and 4Qs to create a unique approach to digital transformation.
THE VALUE OF STRATEGIC HR IMPROVEMENT: BUILDING A CASE FOR YOUR NEXT HR INVES...Human Capital Media
30 years ago, 60% of the market capitalization of a company was tangible assets. Today’s organizations increasingly rely on intangibles as the source of their competitive advantage. PWC’s annual CEO survey shows that CEOs increasingly speak about people as their “most important asset”. This means that HR are increasingly seen less as administrative overhead and more as a strategic business partner. What should HR do with their seat at the executive table?
Learn how to change from transactional to transformation in support of the Business:
Understand methods and approaches by which you can create a compelling reason for your next HR investment.
Show executive leaders how HR’s efforts are central to their most important strategic asset.
Learn how to use fundamental techniques to build a case for your next HR investment by integrating process improvement, maturity models, benchmarking and - most importantly - the real measurable financial impact into your conversations.
About the event:
AWS Transformation Day is designed for enterprise organizations migrating to the cloud to become more responsive, agile and innovative, while staying secure and compliant. Join us for this one-day event and we’ll share our experiences of helping enterprise customers accelerate the pace of migration and adoption of strategic services.
Who should attend?
This event is recommended for IT and business leaders who are looking to create sustainable benefits and a competitive advantage by using the AWS Cloud. CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, CDOs, CFOs, IT leaders and IT professionals, enterprise developers, business decision makers, and finance executives.
Are you a one night stand or long term relationship company?Lauren Costella
The importance of marketing as it relates to client success retention. Are you optimizing the upgrade funnel? Are you engaging clients so they not only stay but grow with you? Marketing plays a big role in the retention and growth of subscription based business models, and if you aren't developing your retention and growth pipeline, you're missing out!
How Testers Can Become Agents of Change in Their OrganizationsDevOps.com
How do you drive quality changes in your organization? How do you get leaders to understand that software quality is a critical priority for agile teams that can help you get to market faster with software users will love? In this webinar, quality leaders Adam Satterfield and Elise Carmichael will share strategies for becoming a quality champion and building a practice that can accelerate DevOps initiatives, and improve both software delivery and business outcomes.
Why and How to Increase Process Thinking Capability - Program Launch v1.0Jim Johnson
Process thinking capability is a major critical success factor for goals including:
> broader individual opportunities,
> organizational competitiveness and
> accelerating innovation.
Because of this process thinking capability is in high demand and short supply.
This presentation describes:
> what process thinking capability is,
> why it needs to be broadly increased, and
> how it can be increased.
This presentation is based on the video found here https://vimeo.com/300092147.
Each slide represents approximately one sentence in the video narration.
Accelerate or Incubate? Making the Right Choice: Danielle D'Agostaro, Alchemist Accelerator
The good news is entrepreneurs just starting out have more choice than ever when it comes to incubators and accelerators. The bad news relates to the good. With all those seeming options, how are you supposed to pick? What you can expect from accelerators and incubators. Questions to ask to narrow your choice down to the right programs. And how to get in.
Genuine agility at scale through LeSS Product Ownership - April 2018Rowan Bunning
Scrum is too often seen as a way for development to deliver faster without concern for agility, customer value optimisation or learning. Whilst there may be a role called “Product Owner”, it may be subordinated to little more than a team-centric SME taking orders from stakeholders and feeding “stories” to a team. In this session, we explore how the LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum) guidance on the Product Owner role can be used to address these problems and achieve scalable agility at a whole of customer-centric product level, no matter how many teams contribute.
Learning objectives:
- Recognise the limitations that you may be experiencing with the Product Owner implementation at your organisation
- Be aware of well proven patterns for scaling the Product Owner role to endeavours involving dozens or hundreds of people
- Be equipped to have an informed conversation about how your organisation can increase agility at scale.
As presented at the Global Scrum Gathering Minneapolis 2018.
[Webinar Slides] How to Target the Best Accounts for Your ABM ProgramTerminus
This webinar was presented by Krystan Reach, director of partnerships at DiscoverOrg, and Torrey Dye, director of ABM at Terminus. View the recording at http://bit.ly/2NSmShU
Job hunting is no longer an option. It's a survival skill that you need to become a master of and having a powerful résumé that gets results is a mandatory first step.
Advanced Scrum: Answering the Difficult QuestionsRyan Ripley
Advanced Scrum was presented at the Path to Agility Conference 2017 and was centered around the audiences questions and concerns about their Scrum practices and implementations.
The Business of Agile - Better Faster CheaperRyan Ripley
During my last agile transformation a key stakeholder asked me, “Why are we doing this?” I talked about increasing quality, delivering software sooner, and fostering a more collaborative relationship with our business partners. After a few minutes, he raised his hand and stopped me.
“I get all that. BUT how is all of this agile stuff any better, faster, or cheaper than what we do today?”
Leaders must answer the “better, faster, cheaper” question if they want their agile transformation and projects to move forward.
To prepare leaders for this critical question, we explore how “better, faster, cheaper” translates to an agile organization, the metrics a leader can use to track progress towards “better, faster, and cheaper”, and how leaders can demonstrate the benefits gained from their agile activities.
Failure is inevitable but it isn't permanentTom Stiehm
Agile Transformation is harder than it needs to be because we often find ways to consciously or subconsciously sabotage our efforts if we can recognize this behavior it is possible to intervene and make a change for the positive.
Does this scenario sound familiar? You have taken on a project that can solve a core challenge that can provide measurable value to your business. It's an exciting opportunity to learn and grow, but that excitement quickly turns to anxiety as you are confronted with a list of unknowns and questions. Answering these questions, if they ever get solved completely, can be done in a myriad of ways. As new projects and challenges come along, the same questions and anxieties surface. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Analysis paralysis leads to projects getting forced on to legacy architectures, deliver results that are "good enough", or stop projects before they get started. This session will illustrate how adopting an agile mindset to cloud adoption can end this cycle and meet your business needs.
How To Activate Employee Engagement Through Digital TransformationDynamic Signal
“Digital” continues to disrupt and create new opportunities for businesses and brands across multiple areas of their organizations. From real-time response to hyper-connected customers and employees, companies often struggle to fulfill the increasing demand for fast, personalized responses to their requests and concerns.
Highly trusted employees can be an organization’s greatest asset during this transformative time. But today’s employees have very different expectations and needs as well.
Join David Armano, Global Strategy Director of Edelman, and Cydney Roach, U.S. Practice Lead for Edelman’s Employee Engagement Practice, for an exclusive webinar with Dynamic Signal. The panel will discuss:
- What got us here and how an organization’s digital transformation journey impacts its future
- How to engage employees using new technology and techniques
- How trust factors into brand reputation and employee advocacy
Business Model Canvas mash-up with the 4Qs Framework. Mash-up by Allen Pattis...run_frictionless
Allen Pattiselanno shares his own special blend of SWOT Analysis, Business Model Canvas, and 4Qs to create a unique approach to digital transformation.
THE VALUE OF STRATEGIC HR IMPROVEMENT: BUILDING A CASE FOR YOUR NEXT HR INVES...Human Capital Media
30 years ago, 60% of the market capitalization of a company was tangible assets. Today’s organizations increasingly rely on intangibles as the source of their competitive advantage. PWC’s annual CEO survey shows that CEOs increasingly speak about people as their “most important asset”. This means that HR are increasingly seen less as administrative overhead and more as a strategic business partner. What should HR do with their seat at the executive table?
Learn how to change from transactional to transformation in support of the Business:
Understand methods and approaches by which you can create a compelling reason for your next HR investment.
Show executive leaders how HR’s efforts are central to their most important strategic asset.
Learn how to use fundamental techniques to build a case for your next HR investment by integrating process improvement, maturity models, benchmarking and - most importantly - the real measurable financial impact into your conversations.
About the event:
AWS Transformation Day is designed for enterprise organizations migrating to the cloud to become more responsive, agile and innovative, while staying secure and compliant. Join us for this one-day event and we’ll share our experiences of helping enterprise customers accelerate the pace of migration and adoption of strategic services.
Who should attend?
This event is recommended for IT and business leaders who are looking to create sustainable benefits and a competitive advantage by using the AWS Cloud. CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, CDOs, CFOs, IT leaders and IT professionals, enterprise developers, business decision makers, and finance executives.
Are you a one night stand or long term relationship company?Lauren Costella
The importance of marketing as it relates to client success retention. Are you optimizing the upgrade funnel? Are you engaging clients so they not only stay but grow with you? Marketing plays a big role in the retention and growth of subscription based business models, and if you aren't developing your retention and growth pipeline, you're missing out!
How Testers Can Become Agents of Change in Their OrganizationsDevOps.com
How do you drive quality changes in your organization? How do you get leaders to understand that software quality is a critical priority for agile teams that can help you get to market faster with software users will love? In this webinar, quality leaders Adam Satterfield and Elise Carmichael will share strategies for becoming a quality champion and building a practice that can accelerate DevOps initiatives, and improve both software delivery and business outcomes.
Why and How to Increase Process Thinking Capability - Program Launch v1.0Jim Johnson
Process thinking capability is a major critical success factor for goals including:
> broader individual opportunities,
> organizational competitiveness and
> accelerating innovation.
Because of this process thinking capability is in high demand and short supply.
This presentation describes:
> what process thinking capability is,
> why it needs to be broadly increased, and
> how it can be increased.
This presentation is based on the video found here https://vimeo.com/300092147.
Each slide represents approximately one sentence in the video narration.
Accelerate or Incubate? Making the Right Choice: Danielle D'Agostaro, Alchemist Accelerator
The good news is entrepreneurs just starting out have more choice than ever when it comes to incubators and accelerators. The bad news relates to the good. With all those seeming options, how are you supposed to pick? What you can expect from accelerators and incubators. Questions to ask to narrow your choice down to the right programs. And how to get in.
Genuine agility at scale through LeSS Product Ownership - April 2018Rowan Bunning
Scrum is too often seen as a way for development to deliver faster without concern for agility, customer value optimisation or learning. Whilst there may be a role called “Product Owner”, it may be subordinated to little more than a team-centric SME taking orders from stakeholders and feeding “stories” to a team. In this session, we explore how the LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum) guidance on the Product Owner role can be used to address these problems and achieve scalable agility at a whole of customer-centric product level, no matter how many teams contribute.
Learning objectives:
- Recognise the limitations that you may be experiencing with the Product Owner implementation at your organisation
- Be aware of well proven patterns for scaling the Product Owner role to endeavours involving dozens or hundreds of people
- Be equipped to have an informed conversation about how your organisation can increase agility at scale.
As presented at the Global Scrum Gathering Minneapolis 2018.
[Webinar Slides] How to Target the Best Accounts for Your ABM ProgramTerminus
This webinar was presented by Krystan Reach, director of partnerships at DiscoverOrg, and Torrey Dye, director of ABM at Terminus. View the recording at http://bit.ly/2NSmShU
Job hunting is no longer an option. It's a survival skill that you need to become a master of and having a powerful résumé that gets results is a mandatory first step.
Advanced Scrum: Answering the Difficult QuestionsRyan Ripley
Advanced Scrum was presented at the Path to Agility Conference 2017 and was centered around the audiences questions and concerns about their Scrum practices and implementations.
The Business of Agile - Better Faster CheaperRyan Ripley
During my last agile transformation a key stakeholder asked me, “Why are we doing this?” I talked about increasing quality, delivering software sooner, and fostering a more collaborative relationship with our business partners. After a few minutes, he raised his hand and stopped me.
“I get all that. BUT how is all of this agile stuff any better, faster, or cheaper than what we do today?”
Leaders must answer the “better, faster, cheaper” question if they want their agile transformation and projects to move forward.
To prepare leaders for this critical question, we explore how “better, faster, cheaper” translates to an agile organization, the metrics a leader can use to track progress towards “better, faster, and cheaper”, and how leaders can demonstrate the benefits gained from their agile activities.
Teaching pointy haired bosses to be agile enablersRyan Ripley
Are managers hindering your Agile transition? Does it seem like things would be better if the managers all left?
Most managers are intelligent people who have built their careers and fed their families with their current knowledge and experience. During an agile transformation, we need them on-board. Managers know their present situation better than anyone else. They also have inside knowledge about the corporate systems and culture that agile coaches need in order to be successful.
But in some cases the manager does not understand agile. In extreme cases, they can become an impediment to an agile transformation moving forward. How can you get these managers back on your side, supporting the agile transformation?
Agile coaches should start with working to understand what the world looks like through the eyes of these managers. To facilitate this understanding, I discuss re-purposing the concept of product user personas to create manager personas that explore the issues, reservations, hold-ups and concerns that are keeping the manager from supporting an agile transformation.
With this new understanding, agile coaches can develop ways to demonstrate to managers why the agile approach is better, where management fit in the larger picture, and how management also benefits from the changes in the way the team delivers value back to the organization. These insights show managers where they can improve agile projects, how they can add value in a newly transformed organization, and how agile coaches can guide management without alienating them during an agile transformation.
Scrum Master Lessons from my 4 Year Old SonRyan Ripley
At a recent cookout, my 4 year old son, Dawson, ran for the back yard and easily joined a game of hide and seek. Watching this unfold, I realized that these kids are naturally agile. They got straight to playing (the value) and didn’t need a lot of ceremony to get there. They kids all did a quick hello, told Dawson what game they were playing, and invited him to join in (daily scrum). Then they played.
He and his friends self-organize, self-manage, and solve problems on the fly. They naturally exhibit the agile values and scrum practices that many adults struggle with daily.
For example, most parents have been bombarded with an unending stream of “Why’s?” from their child. Why does this work? Why did that happen? Why? Why? Why? While this line of questioning can be stressing, it is also invaluable to finding the root cause of an issue. Scrum teams use this approach – called The 5-Why’s – to get past technical issues and down to interpersonal issues that could be hindering the team.
This session is a fun discussion about the behaviors I’ve noticed in my son and how they translate to important lessons that all scrum master need to learn to better serve their teams.
Help the Scrum Master IS the ImpedimentRyan Ripley
The change in mindset necessary to become a servant leader is incredibly hard for a scrum master who comes from command and control background. As a newly minted Professional Scrum Master (PSM I), I returned to my team excited and ready to get underway with a scrum adoption. Unfortunately, I had not fully grasped the concept of servant leadership. Instead of being a change agent, I was an impediment.
My own cautionary tale is unfortunately a common one. Well meaning people with 2 day certifications can do a lot of damage to a new scrum team. Attendees will learn about the difficulties of becoming a scrum master, how scrum team members need to embrace the scrum values to promote healthy team practices, and that even certified scrum masters can lose their way.
The Team Member and Guest Experience - Lead and Take Care of your restaurant team. They are the people closest to and delivering Hospitality to your paying Guests!
Make the call, and we can assist you.
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Senior Project and Engineering Leader Jim Smith.pdfJim Smith
I am a Project and Engineering Leader with extensive experience as a Business Operations Leader, Technical Project Manager, Engineering Manager and Operations Experience for Domestic and International companies such as Electrolux, Carrier, and Deutz. I have developed new products using Stage Gate development/MS Project/JIRA, for the pro-duction of Medical Equipment, Large Commercial Refrigeration Systems, Appliances, HVAC, and Diesel engines.
My experience includes:
Managed customized engineered refrigeration system projects with high voltage power panels from quote to ship, coordinating actions between electrical engineering, mechanical design and application engineering, purchasing, production, test, quality assurance and field installation. Managed projects $25k to $1M per project; 4-8 per month. (Hussmann refrigeration)
Successfully developed the $15-20M yearly corporate capital strategy for manufacturing, with the Executive Team and key stakeholders. Created project scope and specifications, business case, ROI, managed project plans with key personnel for nine consumer product manufacturing and distribution sites; to support the company’s strategic sales plan.
Over 15 years of experience managing and developing cost improvement projects with key Stakeholders, site Manufacturing Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Maintenance, and facility support personnel to optimize pro-duction operations, safety, EHS, and new product development. (BioLab, Deutz, Caire)
Experience working as a Technical Manager developing new products with chemical engineers and packaging engineers to enhance and reduce the cost of retail products. I have led the activities of multiple engineering groups with diverse backgrounds.
Great experience managing the product development of products which utilize complex electrical controls, high voltage power panels, product testing, and commissioning.
Created project scope, business case, ROI for multiple capital projects to support electrotechnical assembly and CPG goods. Identified project cost, risk, success criteria, and performed equipment qualifications. (Carrier, Electrolux, Biolab, Price, Hussmann)
Created detailed projects plans using MS Project, Gant charts in excel, and updated new product development in Jira for stakeholders and project team members including critical path.
Great knowledge of ISO9001, NFPA, OSHA regulations.
User level knowledge of MRP/SAP, MS Project, Powerpoint, Visio, Mastercontrol, JIRA, Power BI and Tableau.
I appreciate your consideration, and look forward to discussing this role with you, and how I can lead your company’s growth and profitability. I can be contacted via LinkedIn via phone or E Mail.
Jim Smith
678-993-7195
jimsmith30024@gmail.com
The case study discusses the potential of drone delivery and the challenges that need to be addressed before it becomes widespread.
Key takeaways:
Drone delivery is in its early stages: Amazon's trial in the UK demonstrates the potential for faster deliveries, but it's still limited by regulations and technology.
Regulations are a major hurdle: Safety concerns around drone collisions with airplanes and people have led to restrictions on flight height and location.
Other challenges exist: Who will use drone delivery the most? Is it cost-effective compared to traditional delivery trucks?
Discussion questions:
Managerial challenges: Integrating drones requires planning for new infrastructure, training staff, and navigating regulations. There are also marketing and recruitment considerations specific to this technology.
External forces vary by country: Regulations, consumer acceptance, and infrastructure all differ between countries.
Demographics matter: Younger generations might be more receptive to drone delivery, while older populations might have concerns.
Stakeholders for Amazon: Customers, regulators, aviation authorities, and competitors are all stakeholders. Regulators likely hold the greatest influence as they determine the feasibility of drone delivery.
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers new opportunities to radically reinvent the way we do business. This study explores how CEOs and top decision makers around the world are responding to the transformative potential of AI.
Oprah Winfrey: A Leader in Media, Philanthropy, and Empowerment | CIO Women M...CIOWomenMagazine
This person is none other than Oprah Winfrey, a highly influential figure whose impact extends beyond television. This article will delve into the remarkable life and lasting legacy of Oprah. Her story serves as a reminder of the importance of perseverance, compassion, and firm determination.